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| Item | Title | Type | Subject | Description | Creator | Date | Property Name | Street | Pages | Medium | Condition | |
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| 1490 | The Bar Harbor Fire: |
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| Ruth Donnell Coombs, switchboard operator at Seal Harbor recalls the fire of 1947 that burned Bar Harbor. |
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Description: Ruth Donnell Coombs, switchboard operator at Seal Harbor recalls the fire of 1947 that burned Bar Harbor. | |||
| 1613 | Mount Desert Quarterly |
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| Newsletter of the Mt. Desert Summer Residents Association about school funding formula, jet skis, Steve Smith's ownership of take-out restaurant in Seal Harbor. |
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Description: Newsletter of the Mt. Desert Summer Residents Association about school funding formula, jet skis, Steve Smith's ownership of take-out restaurant in Seal Harbor. | ||||
| 1663 | 1947 Fire |
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| 1: Bar Harbor Burning. Reprint of a letter from U. Maine, Orono, student to his father in NJ about the l947 Bar Harbor fire which he and fraternity brothers helped fight. 2: The Big Fire by Parson Williams and Mrs. Williams 3: Bar Harbor 40 Years Later |
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Description: 1: Bar Harbor Burning. Reprint of a letter from U. Maine, Orono, student to his father in NJ about the l947 Bar Harbor fire which he and fraternity brothers helped fight. 2: The Big Fire by Parson Williams and Mrs. Williams 3: Bar Harbor 40 Years Later | ||||
| 1667 | Far East Down East |
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| Article about the combined oriental and English garden at the summer retreat of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hall on Peabody Drive, Northeast Harbor. |
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Description: Article about the combined oriental and English garden at the summer retreat of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hall on Peabody Drive, Northeast Harbor. | ||||
| 1682 | Summers at the Eyrie |
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| Although their Mount Desert summer home was palatial in scale, the Rockefellers came to Seal Harbor each year to enjoy the simple life. This article describes their life. |
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Description: Although their Mount Desert summer home was palatial in scale, the Rockefellers came to Seal Harbor each year to enjoy the simple life. This article describes their life. | |||
| 1683 | Re-User Friendly |
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| "Breakwater", a Fred Savage designed summer cottage in Bar Harbor, originally built for John E. Kane in l904,is turned into a bed and breakfast home. |
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Description: "Breakwater", a Fred Savage designed summer cottage in Bar Harbor, originally built for John E. Kane in l904,is turned into a bed and breakfast home. | |||
| 1693 | Settling in Mount Desert |
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| "Cedar Hedges" undergoes interior design transformation in the hands of Leta Austin Foster and her husband Ridgely; a Fred Savage designed house in Northeast Harbor. |
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Description: "Cedar Hedges" undergoes interior design transformation in the hands of Leta Austin Foster and her husband Ridgely; a Fred Savage designed house in Northeast Harbor. | |||
| 1724 | The Traveling Exhibition of Captain Samuel Hadlock Jr. |
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| Capt. Samuel Hadlock Jr. (1792-1829) was a 19th century entrepreneur who made & lost his fortune in Europe in the 1820's, while exhibiting a traveling show of Eskimos. |
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Description: Capt. Samuel Hadlock Jr. (1792-1829) was a 19th century entrepreneur who made & lost his fortune in Europe in the 1820's, while exhibiting a traveling show of Eskimos. | ||||
| 1725 | The Esquimaux-Indians in Berlin 1824-1825 Drawings and Prints |
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| Capt. Samuel Hadlock Jr. (1792-1829) was a 19th century entrepreneur who made & lost his fortune in Europe in the 1820's, while exhibiting a traveling show of Eskimos. |
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Description: Capt. Samuel Hadlock Jr. (1792-1829) was a 19th century entrepreneur who made & lost his fortune in Europe in the 1820's, while exhibiting a traveling show of Eskimos. | |||
| 1730 | Lady into Landscape Gardener: early years at Arnold Arboratum |
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| Early biography of Beatrix Farrand as she develops her landscape "Mentor" Charles Sargent at the Arnold Arboratum and Holm Lea. |
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Description: Early biography of Beatrix Farrand as she develops her landscape "Mentor" Charles Sargent at the Arnold Arboratum and Holm Lea. | |||
| 1733 | Lady in landscape garden: B.F. at Arnold Arboretum P. 2. |
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| Beatrix Farrand's later years as Consultant Landscape Gardener to the Arnold Arboretum. |
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Description: Beatrix Farrand's later years as Consultant Landscape Gardener to the Arnold Arboretum. | |||
| 1743 | A Career in Bud; Beatrix Jones Farrand's Education & Early |
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| Biography of Beatrix Farrand with intensive review of early focus on landscape design, her mentors, her developing philosophy of gardening. |
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Description: Biography of Beatrix Farrand with intensive review of early focus on landscape design, her mentors, her developing philosophy of gardening. | |||
| 1760 | Power Lunches |
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| Autobiographical accounts of lunches with Imelda Marcos (1988) and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Scan: cover, first pages only |
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Description: Autobiographical accounts of lunches with Imelda Marcos (1988) and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Scan: cover, first pages only | |||
| 1761 | Love Gardens Hate Gardening |
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| Autobiographical story of her gardening capers at her Maryland home, 1980. Scan: cover, first pages only |
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Description: Autobiographical story of her gardening capers at her Maryland home, 1980. Scan: cover, first pages only | |||
| 1762 | Carpaccio Capriccio |
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| Autobiographical account of a trip to Venice, staying at the Gritti Palace Hotel on the Grand Canal (with 3 photographs). Scan: cover, first pages only |
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Description: Autobiographical account of a trip to Venice, staying at the Gritti Palace Hotel on the Grand Canal (with 3 photographs). Scan: cover, first pages only | |||
| 1763 | Brief Encounters |
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| Short autobiographical sketches of contacts with notables as Claus von Bulow. Somerset Maugham, Sir Harry Oakes, Clement Freud, and a nameless bootlegger. Scan: cover, first pages only |
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Description: Short autobiographical sketches of contacts with notables as Claus von Bulow. Somerset Maugham, Sir Harry Oakes, Clement Freud, and a nameless bootlegger. Scan: cover, first pages only | |||
| 1776 | Thomas Cole in Maine |
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| Maine works of Thomas Cole, leader of the Hudson River School, during the mid-1980's. Photographs of his etchings included. Signed article by author. From "Record of he Art Museum - Princeton University", vol. 49, number 1/1990 |
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Description: Maine works of Thomas Cole, leader of the Hudson River School, during the mid-1980's. Photographs of his etchings included. Signed article by author. From "Record of he Art Museum - Princeton University", vol. 49, number 1/1990 | |||
| 1782 | Enlightened Scholar of Luminous Artistry |
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| John Wilmerding, Northeast Harbor summer resident combines his professional experience as museum curator (National Gallery) with academia (Dartmouth and Princeton). Article from "Princeton Alumni Weekly", Dec. 5, 1990 |
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Description: John Wilmerding, Northeast Harbor summer resident combines his professional experience as museum curator (National Gallery) with academia (Dartmouth and Princeton). Article from "Princeton Alumni Weekly", Dec. 5, 1990 | |||
| 1786 | Man Who Built Northeast Harbor |
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| Biography and genealogy of Fred K. Savage with descriptions and photographs of homes and buildings he designed in Northeast Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, February 1996 |
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Description: Biography and genealogy of Fred K. Savage with descriptions and photographs of homes and buildings he designed in Northeast Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, February 1996 | |||
| 1808 | Petite Plaisance |
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| Article about Marguerite Yourcenar with photographs of her home where she lived with her companion Grace Frick since 1950. |
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Description: Article about Marguerite Yourcenar with photographs of her home where she lived with her companion Grace Frick since 1950. | |||
| 1810 | Albena Voyage of 1821 |
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| A booklet containing a couple of the maps prepared from the data in the Clement ship's log, voyage of 1821. |
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Description: A booklet containing a couple of the maps prepared from the data in the Clement ship's log, voyage of 1821. | ||||
| 1848 | Freedom |
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| Account of the awarding of the Medal of Freedom to C. Douglas Dillon in 1989. Scan: cover, first pages only |
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Description: Account of the awarding of the Medal of Freedom to C. Douglas Dillon in 1989. Scan: cover, first pages only | |||
| 1885 | The Landing |
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| Story of the German submarine and release of two crewmen spies at Hancock Point on November 29, 1944 as told by one of the boat's engineers. |
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Description: Story of the German submarine and release of two crewmen spies at Hancock Point on November 29, 1944 as told by one of the boat's engineers. | |||
| 1887 | Hands Across the Elbe |
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| Soviet American Linkup as recalled by veterans who witnessed the event on April 25, 1945 on the Mulde and Elbe Rivers. Given to library by Igor Belousovitch who photographed the event as it unfolded. |
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Description: Soviet American Linkup as recalled by veterans who witnessed the event on April 25, 1945 on the Mulde and Elbe Rivers. Given to library by Igor Belousovitch who photographed the event as it unfolded. | |||
| 1890 | Two Emperors |
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| Contains accounts of a trip to Japan, where Susan Dillon & her husband had a audience with Emperor Hirohito. Scan: cover, first pages only |
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Description: Contains accounts of a trip to Japan, where Susan Dillon & her husband had a audience with Emperor Hirohito. Scan: cover, first pages only |
